nothin like the sweet smell of skunk

Don-Wi · Sep 12, 2009

Today I got out our old haybine we kept for cutting swamps and marsh grass, and after greasing it up I went out to cut. I made 2 passes, but on the 3rd pass, I smelt it. I don't know if I killed it yet, but we'll find out next weekend when we bale it.

To top it off, the belts that drive the sickle got chewed up and came off, and now I have to fix it and it SMELLS. I got the old belts off and will get the new ones on Monday. Hopefully the smell disipates a little by then.....

Figures though. We only use the machine once a year to cut a swamp and some waterways, and it chews up the belts that we replaced a few years ago. Maybe 5 years ago if that.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Ken 46 · Sep 12, 2009

My brother and I used to run a custom hay business. Once in a while we would put a skunk thru the swather.
I had run one thru the swather about 3 weeks earlier and broke a guard or sickle section. When I got down in front of the swather it still smelled - and we had probably put 700 acres of alfalfa thru the machine.
Their stink stays a while!!!!!!!

teddy52food · Sep 13, 2009

Sometimes I would get them in fox traps. A year later when boiling & cleaning the traps, the smell is still there.

Kenny_T · Sep 13, 2009

My dog used to always try to kill skunks but would run away yelping after getting sprayed in the face. No matter what you did her head would smell for weeks afterwards.

AcFarmer89. · Sep 13, 2009

I mowed a skunk's tail off this year with the haybine. It was funny watching him run away with no tail.

Fergienewbee · Sep 13, 2009

I really don't mind "Pepi Le Pews" cologne. However, I've never had to scrape one from underneath a vehicle or from a piece of machinery. I, too, have caught a few in fox traps.

Larry in Michigan

RayP(MI) · Sep 13, 2009

Was visiting a friend - ham radio operator this evening. He was showing son and myself the holes he had dug for some radio towers he is working to install. Got to the last hole, 6 foot square 6 foot deep, and the bottom looked like something had been digging in it - trying to tunnel out. Closer inspection, and it held a live skunk. Retrieved the handgun from the car - no longer live skunk. Hole is east of the house, and he'd better pray the wind is outta the west for a couple days. Used to put them down with a .22 between the running lites, little or no odor. Wasn't so lucky tonite. Drove north past the hole about 15 minutes later, and 1/8 of a mile distant, and had to airout the car PEEEEEW!

nothin like the sweet smell of skunk

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